Sheath that becomes a handle?

Boombats

Boombats

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OK, before you say "folders, dummy" ...

I'm thinking of something like a skeletonized full tang blade with a sheath that you can stick the butt into and use as the handle. There's gotta be something out there already, right? Google didn't reveal anything, though something like this Ka-Bar https://pics.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/kbar/images/KA4073BPaa.jpg is close. It seems like an easy thing to make, as long as the blade is not too weird of a shape to fit inside something suitable to grip.
 
Sounds like a recipe for the world's most uncomfortable handle or the world's tiniest blade.

And the same size as a regular fixed blade with none of the advantages since you have to unsheathe, reverse and attach handle.
 
Boombats said:
OK, before you say "folders, dummy" ...

I'm thinking of something like a skeletonized full tang blade with a sheath that you can stick the butt into and use as the handle. There's gotta be something out there already, right? Google didn't reveal anything, though something like this Ka-Bar https://pics.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/kbar/images/KA4073BPaa.jpg is close. It seems like an easy thing to make, as long as the blade is not too weird of a shape to fit inside something suitable to grip.
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I have only seen similar things in a device which was a hollow handle that you attached a variety of different heads that were stored in the handle eg a spear head, knife head etc.
 
why would you?
seems impractical and I can't think of a good reason to try it (I have a couple of blanks here)
 
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Gerber or Benchmark or Bear MGC's "SOS" knife, it was made for a lot of years, and there are still mint examples out there easily findable.

Balisongs, Dowell type "Funny Folders", Cold Steel Triple Actions / Tri-Fold knives, Barrel knives, etc... are also good suggestions.
 
Also, I can't find a picture of them, but there was a type of wrench knife (circa 1950's, 60's) where the sheath became the handle via a snap arrangement. The male half of the snap was pinned into a divot on the handle, the female part of the snap was on a tab on the end of the sheath. To use the wrench part, you left the knife sheathed, to use the knife, you put the sheath over the handle and snapped in.

The weakness to the system was that the tab with the female part would wear out from overuse, and you were limited to thin knives.

Blackie Collins would use the a variation of this snap in system years later to prevent sheath loss -

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Imagine a thinner width skeletonized knife like that, that allowed you to slip in blade or handle first, and you'd have an idea how the 50's. 60's knife worked.
 
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Is there actually anything left to ponder in knife design, everything that can be thought of already has been thought of I swear.
 
Boombats said:
If we only asked why and not how, we'd have no innovations.
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This is true.
Considering that knives have been around since the dawn of human kind you would think that if it was a good idea it would have been done.
Why not square wheels?
 
jideta said:
This is true.
Considering that knives have been around since the dawn of human kind you would think that if it was a good idea it would have been done.
Why not square wheels?
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Look at the plethora of ridiculous looking knives that sell every day, not to mention the incredible variety of knives which are perfectly useful in some tasks and pointless (often literally) for others. I mean hell, they make knives without handles, so why not this? On top of that, you're acting like I am asking people to invest in my new tardknife business venture, when I'm merely curious if, in the cornucopia of knife styles, there is one with a sheath which doubles as a handle. Someone made a knife that looks like a banana, and I'M the crazy one?
 
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